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Dorin Lazar
Personal blog · dorinlazar.roprogrammingsystems
Dorin Lazar's personal blog at dorinlazar.ro covers programming and systems. Since 2015, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Programming is hard”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Dorin Lazar's posts on Facebook reviewing content about Romanian street protests and on whether programming is hard. Comments discuss those topics without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Programming is hard3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-04-06
- I hate Rust (programming language)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-19
- The strange case of Facebook censoring people protesting a corrupt government2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-11-27
- Why C++ sucks (2016 edition)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-02-15
What Hacker News says?
We changed the url from https://dorinlazar.ro/the-strange-case-of-facebook-censoring... , which we would probably normally prefer as a more original source, but which is down right now.
Comment linking /the-strange-case-of-facebook-censoring-people-protesting-a-corrupt-government/
on “Facebook users in Romania see content related to street protests reviewed”Submitted Programming is hard as a story · 597 points
HN discussionI don’t remember real devs around me who would say that programming is easy. My colleague comes up to me and says "you know, mate, programming is easy", something like that? Politicians/media "experts"/programming advocates/managers can say anything, that "programming is easy", "No code/VR/AI/Zettelkasten is a thing", "developers, developers, developers". It's just words from outside. The same if I suddenly began to…
Comment linking /adio-piraterie/
on “Programming is hard”Submitted Why C++ sucks (2016 edition) as a story · 126 points
HN discussionI share much of your grim assessment. It is such a vast indignity that so much of use, so much amazing awesome potential, has no where to go, while the demands to support ourselves remain so persistent & challenging. I do have some areas of hope. > Some of the reddit apologists claim telecommunications will free us all, but its mostly bringing us purity spirals, cancel culture, and identity politics. The current sta…
Comment linking /2021-02-programming-is-hard/
on “Do games like Factorio or Eve Online sap the intellectual potential of humanity?”Submitted I hate Rust (programming language) as a story · 28 points
HN discussion`In fact, if treated properly, most programming things are hard, even things that might seem simple. That is because you have complex pieces that you have to put together and to make them work. And the hardest part is when one has to write the complex pieces from scratch. Things only seem easy because you have people with 5, 10, 20 years of experience doing things that are easy to them because they did them many tim…
Comment linking /2021-02-programming-is-hard/
on “How to Design Programs 2nd Edition”Submitted The sorry state of the programming world as of the end of 2016 AD as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons learnt while trying to modernize some C code as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I wouldn’t recommend vim (or emacs) to developers (2014) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted I hate Rust (programming language) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why C++ sucks (2016.02 edition) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The strange case of Facebook censoring people protesting a corrupt government as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sizeof, memset, memcpy as a story · 1 points
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